“I was sitting down at home and I heard Rick say, ‘You see, Frame, I didn’t die on a show day,” Francis, 68, told iN10. “Frame was what he called me and that’s was how I knew it was Rick. I know people who have said they’ve heard the voices of the dead and thought it was rubbish.

Fender Telecaster
Musical equipment. Rossi’s guitar of choice is the Fender Telecaster, and he has used several over the years including his trademark green 1957 model with a maple fretboard, which he purchased in 1968.

A guitar belonging to Status Quo star Francis Rossi has been sold at auction for nearly £120,000. Rossi bought the green Fender Telecaster for £75 in 1968 and used it until he retired in 2015. It went under the hammer at an auction in London on Tuesday and fetched £118,813.

Several explanations have been proffered as to the origin of the hole drilled in the body, the most likely being that this was done by Francis to allow the lead to be threaded through it when onstage in an attempt to prevent it being ripped out of the jack.

RICK Parfitt’s widow took his beloved guitar away days before his funeral, meaning a replica had to be knocked up as a centrepiece, it is claimed. The Status Quo legend had wanted the custom-made white Fender Telecaster to take pride of place at the service.

He stopped drinking in 1988 just before he persuaded second (and current) wife, Irish-American Eileen, to leave her husband, even though she was expecting his child. “The drugs stopped a little later,” says Francis, who is 70 next month.

Last month we reported that the green Fender Telecaster that Status Quo mainman Francis Rossi used in the band for 46 years was going to auction in London. Now it’s sold, maling Rossi a hefty profit on his original £75 investment.

When playing the guitar, Andrew uses custom guitars by Jamie Davey, a vintage Fender Telecaster, a Gibson Les Paul, a Washburn semi-acoustic and Gibson and Takamini acoustics.

Francis Rossi was born in Forest Hill, London, England in May 1949. He is best known for being the co-founder of the band Status Quo as well as the lead singer and lead guitarist….Francis Rossi Net Worth.

Francis Rossi is finally parting with the green Fender Telecaster he used onstage with Status Quo for 46 years when it’s auctioned at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London on 17 December with an estimate of £100,000 – £150,000. Rossi has owned the guitar for more than 50 years and only retired it from stage use in 2015.

Lyndsay Parfitt said she is ‘really struggling’ to cope since her husband of 10 years died aged 68 last year from sepsis at a Spanish hospital. The 58-year-old, who had nine-year-old twins Tommy and Lily with the guitarist, added that she believes ‘medical negligence’ played a part in his death.

May 29, 1949 (age 72 years)
Francis Rossi/Date of birth

On December 17, 2019 Francis’ original green Telecaster went under the hammer at Bonhams. Estimated to sell for £100–150k the guitar finally sold to one very lucky bidder for the sum of £118,813.00!

Rossi has owned the guitar for more than 50 years and only retired it from stage use in 2015. A year before, Total Guitar caught up with him and late bandmate, the much-missed Rick Parfitt to find out more about their long history with their main Teles.

On the back of that jam came something that no Quo fan thought that they would ever see. In March, 2013 the four original members; Francis Rossi (lead guitar, vocals), Rick Parfitt (rhythm guitar, vocals), Alan Lancaster (bass guitar, vocals) and John Coghlan (drums) played a 9-date set of gigs in the UK.

Rossi in 2012. Francis Rossi live: Christie Goodwin. “I’m only as good now as I should have been when I was 25,” laughs Francis Rossi, the 64-year-old lead guitarist, singer, and co-composer in Status Quo. “That’s why I practice at least two hours every night.